Adelaidean NEWS FROM ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY OCTOBER 23, 2000 Dinosaurs: new study counters age-old theory LONG-NECKED dinosaurs such as collecting data on heart morphology and arterial Diplodocus and Ultrasaurus almost blood pressure in reptiles, birds and mammals to certainly didn’t lift their heads high in determine how blood pressure influences the order to feed, according to new thickness of the heart wall. His research is research at Adelaide University. directed at understanding the evolution of vertebrate cardiovascular systems and the The popular image, and one also believed by embryological development of cardiac function. most dinosaur palaeontologists, is that these long-necked dinosaurs—known collectively as The findings from this study—which will shortly sauropods—raised their necks vertically to be published in a separate paper in Physiological browse from the tops of trees. and Biochemical Zoology in the US—showed that heart size depended on two factors: the Movies such as Jurassic Park and the acclaimed vertical distance of the head above the heart, and BBC television series Walking With Dinosaurs whether the animal was cold- or warm-blooded. portray sauropods as behaving in this manner. For example, the giraffe has exceptionally high But such a portrayal is wrong, according to blood pressure and an enlarged heart due to the Associate Professor Roger Seymour from fact it has to pump blood up its long neck. Birds Adelaide’s Department of Environmental Biology. and mammals also have relatively large hearts Dr Seymour, in conjunction with Dr Harvey due to the fact they are warm-blooded, while Lillywhite of the University of Florida, has just cold-blooded reptiles have low metabolic rates, published a paper in the prestigious Proceedings low blood pressures and smaller hearts. of the Royal Society in London, which argues it “We have determined that the left ventricle in a was physically impossible for sauropods to warm-blooded Barosaurus, for instance, would behave in this way. Above: illustrations of Diplodocus in the early have needed to weigh about 2000kg to pump 1900s, which show the dinosaur with its neck Dr Seymour said research he has conducted into the blood its brain needed,” he said. fully upright. the possible heart size and metabolic rates of “This is impossible for at least three reasons. Right: Associate Professor Roger Seymour. sauropods suggests the only way they could have First, it would be difficult to fit such a heart in functioned on land was with a horizontal neck. the available space; second, the heart would For them to function with a vertical neck, they use more energy than the entire remainder of proposed two solutions as to how sauropods blood assisted the heart by ‘pulling’ the would have had to have a ridiculously thick the body, and third; the thick walls would be might have counteracted the need for such a ascending blood up the neck. heart, he said. mechanically so inefficient that they would large heart. “However, we argue convincingly in our paper Dr Seymour based his findings on sauropods on expend more energy deforming themselves than They may have had accessory hearts in the that neither of these proposals were possible, ” his research of the factors which determine heart in actually pumping the blood.” neck to help pump the blood up, or they had a Dr Seymour said. size in animals. He has spent the past 24 years He said US cardiovascular physiologists have syphon mechanism in which the descending Continued Page 4 Nossal opens $18m Molecular Life Sciences Building ON 12 October, Adelaide for the Molecular Genetics of major investment in molecular biology.” University’s new $18 million Development under Professor Robert Professor O’Kane said the new building Molecular Life Sciences Saint. was one aspect of a range of top-class Building was formally opened The building—part of a $41 million scientific research taking place across by distinguished Australian development of the Lower Level site at the University’s campuses at North scientist and Australian of the Adelaide University’s North Terrace Terrace, Waite, Roseworthy and year Sir Gustav Nossal. campus—represents one of the biggest Thebarton. She said the research across concentrations of molecular biology Some 500 guests from South Australia a wide range of the biological sciences research and education in Australia. and interstate attended the opening, held included work in wine, food, nutrition, in the large entrance foyer of the new It is also of revolutionary design, medicine and the environment, all of building, which is now home to the necessary for a research building that which was contributing to Adelaide’s Department of Molecular Biosciences. will have to cope with many changes in international reputation as a knowledge This new department has brought the coming decades. centre. together staff and students from the “[Typically] laboratory buildings have a “Adelaide University has also been an disciplines of biochemistry, genetics, classical plan built around a core of Australian pioneer in the development microbiology and immunology. service, with laboratories on both sides and commercialisation of biotech- Professor Peter Rathjen (left), Sir Gustav Nossal and Professor Mary around corridors that flank this core,” nological research, with two successful O’Kane unveil the plaque at the opening of the new building. “To my knowledge, this is the first Department of Molecular Biosciences in said the building’s chief architect, Mr spin-off companies, BresaGen and the nation,” said Professor Peter Rathjen, Ramaldo Giurgola. GroPep, floated on the Australian Stock Exchange,” she said. the Head of the new Department. “This building is different. Instead of two “It must be amongst the first of these corridors around a core, the core is University Chancellor Mr Robert departments worldwide. For us, it directly connected with the laboratories, Champion de Crespigny said the new represents the future. Greater strength so it makes the thing work much more Department of Molecular Biosciences can and will be achieved by sensible efficiently,” he said. could make a significant contribution to Australia’s future through commercial interaction than by standing alone; Vice-Chancellor Professor Mary O’Kane applications of scientific advances. scientific progress is increasingly said the new six-storey building would achieved across the old discipline focus and enhance the University’s Sir Gustav used the occasion to boundaries.” existing scientific strengths, and ensure comment on the emerging signifi- Professor Rathjen outlined some of the that Adelaide University continued to be cance of biotechnology, and the need work that will take place in the building, an international bioscience leader in the for the Federal Government to heed calls and which will involve more than 30 21st century. for greater investment in science research and development. An edited research teams engaged in a range of “This building is of major national and leading-edge work, including stem cell international significance in terms of the report of his address can be found on replacement, novel vaccines and the work that will be carried out here,” page 2. The new Molecular Life Sciences Building. Photo: David Ellis. activities of the Special Research Centre Professor O’Kane said. “It represents a —Rob Morrison INSIDE
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page 2 page 5 page 6 Approved For Print Post 565001/00046 For Print Post Approved PAGE 2 OCTOBER 23, 2000 ADELAIDEAN INTERVIEW SIR GUSTAV NOSSAL In opening the Molecular Life Sciences Building, Now I am not for one second bemoaning or about starting to think about a 30c dollar,” and Sir Gustav Nossal recalled the pioneering role decrying the importance of commercialisation that is what you will have if you do not pick up that Adelaide University had played in the of Australian discoveries in Australia. It is a your game in innovation, in commercialisation, development of biotechnology. He reflected on question of balance, and it is absolutely in development, in technology, in knowledge. the state of Australian science and the role of imperative that you do not lose your primacy in The government has not yet responded to these commercialisation in it. The following is an the public-good, more basic type of research that reports. really is the responsibility of governments. edited version of his speech and an interview I want to say a word also about the other half of with science journalist Rob Morrison. So how is the University of Adelaide, and R&D, the industrial R&D where again we have Australia indeed, to face these challenges? seen a falling performance in the lucky country, There is basically only one answer, and that is a falling percentage of the GDP put into Adelaide University has had a very special place working more smartly together in bigger, looser research and development. This has been very in my affections since 1948, when my late teams... worrying, and therefore I believe that has been brother, Peter, was invited by Sir Mark Mitchell largely due to the captains of industry of this to become a senior lecturer and then later a Intelligently managed, it is not a given that commercialisation need divert a basic science country thinking of research and development Reader in Biochemistry. I made many visits as a cost that reflects directly from the bottom here with my parents and then later as a young from their mission, because what tends to happen in these large teams is that those more line, not as an investment, which is what it scientist. My contacts down the years were really is. chiefly in microbiology and immunology, where interested in the basic end keep doing the work Derek Rowley, a very young Professor, built up at which they’re good, and they link up then Now from this point of view I was greatly an amazingly strong department in these twin with others who are more interested in the encouraged by an open letter that I saw 10 days or so ago from 10 peak bodies in Australia, sciences; not only founding the Australian applied end, and with still others who are adept Sir Gustav Nossal. Photo: Ben Osborne. saying the lucky country has got to take R&D Society for Immunology, but also being, I think, at the development work and commer- and education more seriously. Of course the the earliest biotechnology entrepreneur in the cialisation. peak bodies included the Australian Academy country with his work towards viral disease In its very short history, Yet despite these encouraging remarks, of Science, and the Australian Academy of vaccines. Australia is at the crossroads with respect to biotechnology in Australia Technological Sciences and Engineering, and has had some stunning What a redoubtable period when the gang of research and development. [I like] to refer to the the Institution of Engineers. You would have successes. four were at the helm; Elliot, Symons, Rogers ‘three I’s’—Ireland, Israel and India. expected them to plead in that way but, “ and Wells, and what an extraordinary effect Who would have thought 10 or 15 years ago significantly and for the first time, it also they have had on this devastatingly important that these countries would now be beating us included the Business Council of Australia, the some stunning successes. science which gradually translated itself into hands down to big software consulting Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, molecular biology, having trained virtually every contracts? Who would have thought that and bodies of that ilk very much in the Q: The history of science” is marked by important molecular biologist in the nation... Ireland would be big in biotechnology, with an 8- commercial realm, pleading for stronger individual discoveries at a particular time What a felicitous circumstance that it is 9% per annum annual growth rate maintained government support of the innovation process in and place. It is now harder to pin them down precisely these sciences, biochemistry, over the last eight years, so their only worry at this country. to one time, place or person. Science is becoming increasingly international and microbiology, immunology and genetics that will the moment now is inflation caused by boom There is no alternative to the knowledge nation disparate; an example is stem cell be going on in this amazing new building. conditions? And who would have thought that in the 21st century. The alternative is a slide research which must juggle the varying Israeli science, always strong, would so into irrelevance. Have we not been foolish to The new century, the new millennium, the new laws, ethics and practices of different states competently link with the commercial sector, allow our investment in education to fall from era—what can we say about the University of and countries. Where can Australia capitalise Adelaide’s role in that? There is only one producing a very vibrant Information Technology 5.1% to 4.3% of GDP? Have we not been foolish & Telecommunications and biotechnology to allow the expenditure per full-time equivalent on something that is as disparate as that, and prediction that we can make with absolute how well placed are we to take the lead in it? certainty and that is that the pace of change will industry. student in Australian universities to fall by 20% be even greater, and you will now tackle the And we’re falling behind. Many would say, (I just over the last four years? Have we not been A: Look I agree with you profoundly. It is task with state-of-the-art and very beautiful don’t subscribe to this) that we have lost the foolish to allow industrial R&D to fall increasingly difficult to absolutely trace with facilities that it is a real, real honour to be asked battle in IT&T. We must not lose the battle in substantially? The next election will and should certainty the origin of discoveries. Many of the to open. biotechnology, the other great defining science be fought on these issues. intellectual property issues concerning stem of the third millennium, and therefore the cells will be extremely difficult and Yet Australian Universities are in difficult times. Q: We have seen the ‘dotcoms’ come and go response to two impressive government controversial. We’re existing in a harsh, competitive, largely in the twinkling of an eye. What do you think enquiries is eagerly awaited. I refer to Chief borderless and deregulated world, and you are the future of biotechnology is likely to be in When you ask me how Australia can capitalise, Scientist Robin Batterham’s examination of the under-resourced. Student numbers are the sharemarket? I can use only one word:- niche. We have got to state of science in the nation and to David increasing, the resources for students are A: I think it will be a little bit like the dotcoms. be an astute, fast flexible niche player. We will Miles’s Innovation Task Force implementation drastically down, salaries are uncompetitive, You will have a few, a small number of stunning never conquer the big battallions of the United group report. and a certain degree of threat to the basic successes, you will have certainly a significant States. Their investment is so much greater science which you have performed do In a very catchy phrase that was picked up by number of failures, and you’ll have a fair number than ours that the glittering prizes will always go illustriously, is present through the huge the media, he said “Well you are worried about in between, but I do want to say that in its very to them or to other very large countries. pressures for commercialisation. a 55c dollar” (as it was at the time), “what short history, biotechnology in Australia has had However, we can find niches. Letters to the Editor December graduations praised by students Please send your letters to the editor, David Ellis, at the address below or email to: GRADUATION time is always special Engineering student Mr Eng Chien Chew.
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From Page 1 vertical neck, with blood supplied from a smaller heart, but only if they had a low “A horizontal neck could be just as useful as metabolic rate typical of a cold-blooded a vertical one in permitting the animal to reptile. browse widely. “Even in this case, however, the heart wall “Like a vacuum cleaner, the neck could reach still would have been relatively thick and among vegetation up to about four or five inefficient for pumping. metres in height without lifting the head, “The question whether dinosaurs were warm while the bulk of the body stayed in one or cold-blooded has been debated over the place. last 30 years, but the metabolic rates of “The only viable solutions to the sauropod sauropods will probably never be known with blood pressure problem were that they were certainty. restricted to holding their necks horizontally, “In either case, it appears unlikely that these or that they were cold-blooded animals with animals lifted their heads high as commonly low blood flow rates. depicted.” “We admit that they could have had a —Ben Osborne ADELAIDEAN OCTOBER 23, 2000 PAGE 5 Conservation park grows from invisible habitat
THIS month, South Australia gained author of the popular field guide, It’s blue with five its newest conservation Park, petals, and has been actively involved in Mokota, located 15 kilometres north grassland research and education for many years. of Burra in the State’s mid-north. “All grasslands have some wild oats and other The name ‘Mokota’ is derived from Maori words weed species,” said Ms Prescott, “but in terms meaning ‘beautiful view,’ and preserves the title of the mid-north, Mokota is in excellent of the property from which the park was condition. It has a high diversity of native acquired with funds from the State Government, grasses among more than 150 indigenous plant NHT and Nature Foundation SA, which has also species, including 32 of significant conservation funded a biodiversity study of the park and other value in the state.” grassland habitats. Ms Prescott sees a need for further research “Mokota is the first native grassland reserve in into grassland ecology and management, in South Australia, and conserves an important which Dr Jose Facelli and his postgraduate habitat type,” said Ann Prescott, President of students in the Department of Environmental the Nature Conservation Society of SA, who Biology will be involved. spoke at the dedication of the park by the Hon “Because grasslands, unlike some other Iain Evans, Minister for Environment and habitats, must be actively managed, they will Heritage. “Grasslands have been the invisible need baseline surveys to gather data,’ said Ms habitat for too long,” she said. Prescott. The park is also substantial, covering more than “The Nature Conservation Society has some 450 hectares of tussock grassland community funding to look at management strategies—how that was once widespread across the State’s do we manage weeds? Should we burn, slash or mid-north, but has largely been cleared for graze? Interstate experience suggests that we cropping and grazing. “This site exists because should and, hopefully, Jose and his students will Anne Prescott, President of the Nature Conservation Society of SA, shows the Minister for the former owners have managed it help give us those answers.” Environment and Heritage, Iain Evans, some of the native grass species that Mokota will conservatively, with low stocking and fertiliser Dr Facelli sees the acquisition of Mokota as an conserve. Photo: Rob Morrison. rates,” said Ms Prescott. important step in assisting that research. “We Ms Prescott graduated with an honours degree now have at least one grassland conservation management of them is essential. If we can can help to conserve the grasslands that are from Adelaide University’s Botany Department to park, but the vast majority of grasslands are in understand and develop strategies fore grazing privately owned, as happens elsewhere in the become the World Wildlife Fund’s grasslands private ownership and are likely to remain so,” that don’t decrease the farmers’ profits, and at world.” extension officer. She is well-known as the said Dr Facelli. “That means that proper the same time improve biodiversity, then we —Rob Morrison INTERNATIONAL LINKS BUILDING TIES WITH ASIA Chinese visitor returns home Korean visitors learn from after exchange at Waite our OH&S experience CHINA has always been a pro- INDUSTRIAL noise control was just and local industries. ductive nation. It is also one of the one of the many aspects of “The delegation was interested in the world’s great consuming nations—a Occupational Health & Safety on implementation of local OHS management significant market for products and show to a group of visiting Koreans systems,” Dr Pisaniello said. “Korea has a need services. at Adelaide University’s Thebarton to build its OHS capacity, especially in Increasingly, China is sending its academics campus. occupational hygiene, and Australia is seen as abroad and welcoming others on exchange A delegation of nine South Korean academics having advanced systems in OHS visits. Scientific and technological research is and scientists, representing the Korean management.” seen as a very important area for these Institute of Industrial Safety (KIIS), visited He said the Koreans’ visit was highly exchanges. Adelaide in August. successful and could lead to exchange Jun-Hua Zhang is the Manager of the The group, comprising senior staff from four programs between South Australia and Korea, Foreign Affairs Office, Nanjing Branch, of the universities and Samsung Electronics, attended initially involving the SA Collaborative Centre in Chinese Academy of Sciences—the equivalent a series of workshops organised by Dr Dino Occupational Health & Safety (an alliance of the CSIRO. At the invitation of Prof- Pisaniello, Senior Lecturer in Occupational and between Adelaide University, University of SA essor Malcolm Oades, Jun-Hua Zhang has Environmental Hygiene at Adelaide’s and Douglas Mawson Institute of TAFE). spent the past three months at the Waite Department of Public Health. “I’m planning a trip to Korea next year as part of campus, to study the role of government, The workshops dealt with the management my study leave, and in my capacity as the how research is funded in Australia, and the of industrial noise, hazardous substances, President of the Australian Institute of ways in which research is translated to and emergency chemical incidents. The Occupational Hygienists,” Dr Pisaniello said. farmers and agribusinesses. He is the first Korean delegation also made field visits to “This might be an additional opportunity for the administrator to have such a placement in South Jun-Hua Zhang of the Chinese Academy of the Metropolitan Fire Service, WorkCover University to promote itself in Korea,” he said. Australia. Sciences. Photo: Rob Morrison. "In the past, it was researchers and academics who were those who undertook these location of different organisations and exchanges," said Jun-Hua Zhang. "Now we cooperation between them, as exemplified at see it as very important that administrators the Waite campus, might provide some models take part in them," he said. "It began around for China. In particular, he has been impressed 1978 , when China decided to open its doors by ways in which he has seen research findings and began to send its administrators overseas communi-cated directly to farmers and to study the management systems being used businesses. He sees this ‘linkage’ between by universities and research institutes so that research and its applications as a profitable one they could introduce to China those that were to develop. suitable." On his return, Jun-Hua Zhang will report on In the first half of 1980s, we used manpower for his findings, and introduce suitable manage- economic development,” explained Jun-Hua ment techniques. “We find that it is best to Zhang. “Later in that decade, we turned to start with local groups,” he said. “This allows money, and invested heavily to develop our us to develop a model which can then be economy. From the beginning of 1990s on, as used to introduce techniques on a larger now, we saw that science and technology scale.” would be essential. As well as exchanging our Jun-Hua Zhang hopes and expects that such scientists, we are now sending administrators exchanges will continue, and sees in them abroad to see how we can best manage our considerable potential for the improvement of research programs,” he said. bilateral relationships between China and During his time here, Jun-Hua Zhang has Australia. written three papers on the ways in which co- —Rob Morrison Noise levels and hearing protection: one of the OH&S issues on display to visiting Koreans. PAGE 6 OCTOBER 23, 2000 ADELAIDEAN Adelaide uni staff go bald for a worthy cause IT WAS a strange scene: grown men strapped to chairs, preparing themselves to meet their fate in front on an unsympathetic audience lusting for damage to be inflicted. One could almost hear the laconic Australian voice defiantly telling his tormentors to “cut straight you bastards, and don’t make a mess of it”. But it wasn’t quite the epic final scene from Breaker Morant; rather, it was nine of Adelaide University’s most senior managers getting their heads shaved to raise money for charity. ITS General Manager Scott Snyder gets his gear off in a desperate bid to raise more money during the headshave auction process, as A large crowd recently gathered at the Barr enthusiastic auctioneer Andi Sebastian looks on. Smith Lawns to watch such notables as Ian Creagh, Steve Daysh, Tony Siebert and David Carver lose their locks to help out seven-year-old Alexandra Lamb (the daughter of Administrative Services Manager David Lamb) who was recently diagnosed with diabetes. The headshaving was part of Alexandra’s efforts towards the Juvenile Diabetes Foun- dation of Australia’s major fundraising event Tony Siebert (right) proudly displays his new haircut while Richard Arrowsmith of the year, the Walk for the Cure walkathon, (left) and Ian Creagh don’t look quite so sure at the recent fundraising headshave which was held at Glenelg recently. on the Barr Smith Lawns. Her proud father—who lost not only his hair and beard in the headshave, but also his eyebrows—said he was staggered by the support he received for the event, which has Seven-year-old Alexandra Lamb goes to work on her father David’s so far raised more than $6000. head. More than $6000 was raised for Alexandra’s fundraising “Everybody has been so supportive of the efforts for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation of Australia. idea, from the guys themselves to Andi Sebastian, who did such a great job as the auctioneer,” Mr Lamb said. “Then there were the businesses like Hamilton Pharmceuticals, Equity and Advisory and Norman Waterhouse who donated money, as well as other businesses and people too numerous to mention who donated money and goods in kind. “It really was excellent and I can’t begin to thank everyone enough for making it the success that it was.” Vice-Chancellor Professor Mary O’Kane, herself a vigorous bidder on more than one occasion during the auction process, said the event highlighted the esprit de corps of Adelaide University general staff. “It was very pleasing to see how many general staff attended the event to support a colleague in his efforts to raise money for charity,” she said. “Such a show of spirit and enthusiasm underlines the sense of A trio of Adelaide University senior managers (from left) Scott Snyder, David Lamb community within our general staff ranks.” Executive Director of Student and Staff Services Ian Creagh laughs and David Carver, receive more than a short back and sides from a more-than- in the face of danger while his “hairdresser”, Lina Russo, ponders willing trio of haircutters Tina Daniels, Doug Elsom and Mark Robinson. Photos by —Ben Osborne what to do next. Ben Osborne. Advertisement Glass of frontignac saves the day From Page 8 experience they had ever had,” Grahame said. The performances rounded off a successful music Max, now based at Auckney, Scotland, dedicated his festival for Adelaide’s Elder Conservatorium students. new piece to Grahame Dudley, who was one of his Pro Canto, the University choir, also featured with Elder students at Adelaide University during the 1960s. A New Music and Lights in a whole program of Max Glass of Frontignac is based on their first wine-tasting Davies’s works, related works, and a composition by experience together at the Barossa in 1966. student Trevor Tao. “The first movement is all about the serious business of The two concerts were directed by Grahame Dudley wine-tasting,” Grahame said. and co-presented with Max Davies. A feature of the “It’s quite thoughtful, fairly tense. You can feel the Lights concert was Max’s Xmas Box, a group of four palate being tickled. It’s very calculating. short pieces composed by Max’s distinguished Adelaide University students from 1966:- Ross “The second movement is several hours later, when Edwards, Graham Hair, Martin Wesley-Smith and Jillian you’ve forgotten to spit the wine out and you’re Whitehead. having a great time—and the violin and clarinet parts are decidely squiffy, they definitely sound like “The final concert was also a wonderful success,” someone who’s sedately drunk. And the whole thing Grahame said. finishes with a wonderful, genteel ‘hic’ from the “There was a cliffhanger there for a while, because our marimba.” pianist, Leigh Harrald, had got into the finals of the “They [the students] did fine,” said Max, despite them competition which he didn’t think he was going to get having to play the piece virtually unseen. into, and he found that he was supposed to be playing the finals at the same time as he was playing in our “The students were a lovely group of people and I concert. I quickly restructured my program, and thoroughly enjoyed working with them—there was a fortunately the competition finals were on at the same great enthusiasm there. Working with the group was winery, Peter Lehmann’s. Leigh just ran down the hill, the highlight of the whole festival,” he said. and they were waiting for him, and he played—and The feeling was obviously reciprocated: “Several of my won the thing! So that was a story in itself.” students told me that working with Max was the best —David Ellis ADELAIDEAN OCTOBER 23, 2000 PAGE 7 New centre of evolutionary biology THE Centre of Evolutionary Biology Members of the Centre already attract in ”The Centre will bring this expertise together to and Biodiversity was launched at excess of $1.1 million into Adelaide University, foster collaboration, focus on new questions, Adelaide University on Wednesday including 10 ARC Large/SPIRT grants. The and take advantage of new funding 18 October. formation of the Centre will help to secure opportunities.” external funding and infrastructure through It represents a major joint research initiative “The recent arrival in Adelaide of Professor Tim collaboration among its members and with Flannery as Director of the SA Museum, and between Adelaide University, the South national and international colleagues. Australian Museum and the plant Biodiversity Professor Robert Hill, an ARC professorial fellow Centre, run by the Department of Environment It will provide national and international in paleobiology in the Department of Environ- and Heritage. recognition for the high-calibre research mental Biology, have really strengthened the already being undertaken in Adelaide, and scope of the Centre,” said Professor Austin. The Centre aims to be a leading national and expects to attract postgraduate students and Following the launch by Professor Edwina international centre for research and teaching visitors from interstate and abroad. Cornish, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), in evolutionary biology and biodiversity studies, Professor Austin, who was recently elected Professor John Maynard Smith delivered a with an emphasis on the fauna and flora of President of the Australian Entomological lecture on The Evolution of Animal Signals. Australia. Society, works in the Department of Molecular Professor Maynard Smith, from the University “We will focus on a range of major scientific & Applied Ecology at the University’s Waite of Sussex, is one of the most influential questions, such as ‘how are species formed?’, campus. evolutionary biologists of the last 40 years. ‘how many species of plants and animals really “Adelaide University and the Museum have A winner of many international awards, he is exist?’, and how answers to these questions clearly recognisable strengths in evolutionary the author of The Evolution of Sex, Evolution relate to the conservation and management of biology and biodiversity but they are spread and the Theory of Games, and Evolutionary biodiversity,” said Associate Professor Andy across two organisations, two faculties and Genetics. Austin, who will be the Centre’s Director. four departments,” said Professor Austin. —Rob Morrison Professor Andrew Austin. 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Advertisement MEMORANDUM TO: Glass of frontignac saves the day ALL GRADUATES OF FRONTIGNAC may have become an THE UNIVERSITY OF unfashionable wine in recent years, but it was the toast of the recent ADELAIDE Barossa Music Festival thanks to world-famous composer Sir Peter FROM: Maxwell Davies. MICHAEL ABBOTT QC Max, as he’s known, composed an all-new I am concerned that of up to 80,000 piece of music called A Glass Of Frontignac, graduates less than 1,000 are on the written for and performed in its world premiere Senate Postal Address List and (all in the same day) by Adelaide University’s therefore, many graduates will fail to Elder New Music ensemble. vote at the forthcoming election for Council Members. It was a spur-of-the moment decision by Max when another group didn’t show up for The election for the Council of the rehearsal at a masterclass at Chateau University of Adelaide will be held Yaldara. during the course of the next two weeks until 5.00pm on 8 November, Elder New Music, under the guidance of after which time no further votes will Adelaide University senior lecturer Mr Grahame be accepted. Dudley, was scheduled to have two hours of All graduates of the University are rehearsal with Max, followed later by a public eligible to vote but voting is not performance. compulsory. “There was I, faced with a two-hour rehearsal To receive a voting paper you need to and then a masterclass of one hour on a piece World-renowned composer Max Davies (left) with Elder Con senior lecturer Grahame Dudley. be enrolled on the Senate Postal of mine lasting only five minutes, which Grahame had already conducted with the Address List. to Yaldara while Max was rehearsing the students and which they could play perfectly If you are not enrolled or have not first movement with the students,” Grahame well,” Max said. received a voting paper you should:- said. “So I thought: ‘right, only one thing to do— 1. Write to the Returning Officer (Susan “He gave the students their music, they had rehearsal cancelled, I’m going back to the hotel Graebner) at the University or; about five minutes to look at their individual to write another piece’.” 2. Phone the Returning Officer on 8303 parts, then he started the rehearsal—the 3408. And that’s exactly what happened. In a couple audience was already waiting outside for the This year the Senate, ie. potentially all of hours, Max had composed his new work, masterclass to start.” graduates, elect three candidates from scribbling the notes down on paper, while The reaction of both the students and the a field of eight nominations. Grahame Dudley photocopied, cut and audience was enormous. In fact, the piece was pasted the pieces together for the various so well received they decided to play it again on I have renominated as a member of performers. Council and seek your vote. the final Sunday of the Barossa Music Festival “I was still sticking the the second movement at Peter Lehmann’s winery. Max, Grahame and the Elder New Music I am currently in my second year as together in the back of the car on the way back Continued Page 6 Chair of the Finance Committee of this ensemble at Chateau Yaldara. University and I believe that I bring a range of skills to the Council and that the next two years will be a very testing time for our University. Fragments feature in PATU performance Issues such as:- 1. The role of management; WORKS at the shorter end of the enigmatic 19th century composer- 2. Our relationship with our overseas the musical time scale are the virtuoso Alkan, together with the Alumni; focus of a new performance world premiere of a new work written for him by French composer Sophie 3. The challenge of globalisation; by Elder Conservatorium- School of Performing Arts Lacaze, and interludes by John Cage, to name but three, demonstrate that pianist Stephen Whittington Gyorgy Kurtag, and former Adelaide what this University needs is a Council on Tuesday 24 October. University composers-in-residence, which can both make and respond to Howard Skempton and Peter Garland. change whilst at the same time In Fragments/Visions, Mr Whittington preserving those values and attitudes will perform works by a wide range of “I have a commitment to performing which we hold dear. I believe that a composers ranging varying in length music by composers who are strong Council is necessary to achieve from a few minutes to a few seconds, internationally acknowledged as these goals. many of which will be performed for eminent—Pierre Boulez, Gyorgy the first time in Australia. Kurtag, John Cage—but are rarely performed in Australia owing to the Advertisement Mr Whittington, who is coordinator of difficulty of the music,” he said. the Performing Arts Technology Unit “I believe it is essential that Adelaide UNITARIAN CHURCH and also teachers composition, music theory, acoustics and electronic music, audiences hear this music to Established in Adelaide 1854 is renowned for his performances of counteract the effects of geographical THE CREEDLESS CHURCH epic works like the two-hour Triadic isolation —’the tyranny of distance’— Memories by Morton Feldman, but is and the potential for parochialism.” Freedom of thought, reason now turning his attention to the —Ben Osborne and tolerance, are important encapsulation of a poetic vision in the religious guides. But to microscopic. Fragments/Visions will be performed overcome prejudice we must Born in the crucible of Romantic at Adelaide University’s Performing use our hearts. passion in the early 19th century, the Arts Technology Unit at 8.00pm on miniature has attracted composers Tuesday, 24 October. The Unit is Services at 10.30am every Sunday throughout the last 150 years. located on Level 5 of the Schulz 99 Osmond Terrace, Norwood, SA 5067 Building (take lifts from the Scott Tel (08) 8332 2803 Mr Whittington will perform cycles of Theatre foyer), and admission is Sunday School and Creche short works by Arnold Schoenberg, $10/$5. Pierre Boulez, Alexander Scriabin, and Stephen Whittington. Photo: Ben Osborne.
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MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 5.00pm North Terrace Neuro- science Discussion Group: Axon 11.00am Politics Postgraduate/ COMING EVENTS guidance during development and regeneration of the nervous system by Staff Seminar: New Scenery on the 23th October — 3rd November Third Way by Lionel Orchard (Flinders Dr Simon Koblar (Genetics). Seminar Uni). Room 420, Napier Building. Room, 6th Floor, Medical School, Nth. Jean-Paul Sartre’s Idea of Committed Handsworth - clarinet, Semyon Kobets 6.00pm CISME Seminar: Popu- 1.00pm Clinical and Art”,by Mark Carroll. Room 1107, - Violin, Tamara Smolyar - Piano. $3 at lation Policy for Australia by Dr Tim Experimental Pharmacology Schulz Building (enter via western door the door, inc GST. Elder Hall. Seminar: Flannery BA MSc PhD, (Director SA Opioid effects and with- near Scott Theatre). Refreshment 1.10pm Centre for Asian Studies drawal in the rat, by Mr Raymond Museum). Council Room (enter via provided - gold coin donation please. Seminar: Recent Issues Concerning Chan (Clinical & Experimental Pharm- Hughes Building lifts,). Refreshments Japanese Education by Dr Shoko acology). Medical School, North. from 5.30pm. WEDNESDAY 25 OCTOBER Yoneyama. Level 5, Room 518, 1.10pm Geographical & Environ- Ligertwood Building. mental Studies Seminar: WEDNESDAY 1 NOVEMBER Wild 4.00pm Obstetrics & Thoughts from Tame Places: Urban 10.10am Electrical & Electronic Gynaecology Seminar: Caesarean Biodiversity Education, by Dr Sandra Engineering Research Seminar: section - intervening at a cultural level, 10.10am Electrical & Electronic Taylor (Geographical & Environmental Wavelet Analysis of Heart Sounds by by Dr Deb Turnbull (Senior Lecturer, Engineering Seminar: Towards the Studies). Room 104, Environmental Sheila Messer ( Electric & Electronic General Practice & Psychology), and Dr Implementation of Arbitrary Boolean Studies Building. Engineering). Room EM212, New Chris Wilkinson (Obstetrics & Functions in Threshold Logic by Peter Engineering & Mathematics Building. 1.10pm Law School Seminar: Gynaecology, WCH). Seminar Room, Celinski (Electrical & Electronic Australian Crown Lands: A property 1.00pm Social Inquiry Seminar: 6th Floor, Medical School. Engineering). Room EM212, New institution, by Paul Babie. Room 216, Countering Domestic Violence: Engineering & Mathematics Building. Ligertwood Building. Sandwiches Innovative Strategies of the State and 12.30pm Clinical Nursing provided. voluntary Organisations in Karnatake MONDAY 30 OCTOBER Seminar: Promoting Best Practice in and Gujarat by Professor Veena 1.10pm Student Workshop: Learn the Management of Peripheral Intra- Poonacha (Women’s Studies, SNDT Deep Relaxation by Mark O’Donoghue. 10.00am Politics Postgraduate/ vascular Devices by Mr Rick Wiechula Uni, India). Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, Counselling Centre, Ground Floor, Staff Seminars: Auto-Regulation: (Acting Director, Joanna Briggs 10 Pulteney Street. Horace Lamb Building. Internet Policy in Singapore by Terence Institute for Evidence Based Nursing 2.00pm English Seminar: 1.10pm Geology and Geophysics Lee; The Book & Print-based Media in and Midwifery). Room 36, Level 3, “Another kind of mind”.Drugs, dissent Seminar: To be advised, by Dr George Contemporary Society by Victoria Eleanor Harrold Building, RAH. Williams (Dept Geology & Geophysics Reynolds; The Matter of Bodies in and the idea of transformation in the 1.10pm Genetics Seminar: Title U of A). Mawson Lecture Theatre. Social & Political Theory by Chris psychedelic counterculture of the 60s, to be announced by Dr Michal Fietz. Beasley. Room 420, Napier Building. by Andrew Cook. How can you live in 1.10pm Genetics PhD Update: Seminar Room, Ground Floor, a city of monuments? Reading Richard Tamme (third year). Seminar 12noon Plant Science Seminar: southern entrance, Fisher Building. Commemoration and Forgetting in Room, Ground Floor, Fisher Building. Improving strategies in barley breeding 5.30pm Centre for Biomedical Adelaide’s North Terrace and River using microsatellite markers, by Mr 4.00pm Physiology Seminar: Engineering: Student Papers Night. Torrens Precinct, by Emily Potter. Angelo Karakousis (PhD Student). How Does Sperm Meet Egg? by Assoc Hone Lecture Theatre, Medical School Room 618, Napier Building. Arabinoxylan metabolism in germ- Prof W Breed (Anatomical Sciences). South. 3.30pm ACUE Seminar: Progress Room N417, Level 4, Medical School inated barley, by Mr Robert Lee (PhD of students through the Adelaide BDS North. Student). Seminar Room, Waite. course, by Dr Dimitra Lekkas (Lecturer, 1.10pm Student Workshop: Learn THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER Dentistry). Seminar Room 2, Schulz Deep Relaxation by Mark O’Donoghue. Building. THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER Counselling Centre, ground floor, 12.05pm Psychology Seminar: Horace Lamb Building. Towards the measurement of organisa- TUESDAY 24 OCTOBER 12noon Hanson Centre for 4.00pm ACUE/HERDSA(SA) tional culture by Liz Kummerow Cancer Research Seminar: Seminar: Teaching as we believe: (Commerce). Room 527, Hughes. Hormonal factors in prostate cancer Using IT in higher education, by 1.00pm Environmental Biology 12noon Child Health Research development and progression, by Professor John Bain (Griffith Seminar: The ecophysiology of Institute Seminar: Milk and Infant Professor Wayne Tilley (Flinders University). ACUE Seminar Room, Ecklonia radiata by Anne Fairhead Mucosal Immunity, by Dr Imme Cancer Centre, Flinders Medical 2nd Floor, Schulz Building. (Environmental Biology) Benham Penttila. Seminar Room, 7th floor, Centre). Robson Theatre, RAH. Rieger Building, WCH. Light 7.30pm Institute of Physics Non- Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, refreshments provided. 12.05pm Psychology Seminar: Traditional Careers Night: Benham Building. Psychosocial influence on workers Speakers: Dr Tony Butterfield (ATO), 1.10pm Student Workshop: compensation claims by Kevin Newton Dr Ian Tuohy, (British Aerospace Aust), Surviving a PhD by Mark O’Donoghue. (HR manager, OH&S). Room 527, and Prof John Prescott. Kerr Grant FRIDAY 3 NOVEMBER Counselling Centre, Ground Floor, Hughes Building. Lecture Theatre, Physics Building. Horace Lamb Building. 1.00pm Environmental Biology 8.00pm History of Science, 3.15pm Anthropology Seminar: 10.00am Social Inquiry Labour Seminar: The ecology of woody Ideas & Technology Group: Mental Studies Seminar: Polytropy and Dhalwangu Song: An Locating South plants in Southern Australia by Tanja Blocks - The fateful delays in the Initial Formulation, by Peter Toner Australia in the Changing World- Lenz (Environmental Biology). discovery of nuclear fission, by Mr Bob (Anthropology). Room 722, Napier System, by Stewart Sweeney. Seminar Benham Lecture Theatre, ground floor, Major (Geologist). Royal Society Building. Room, 3rd Floor, 10 Pulteney Street. Benham Building. Rooms, Plane Tree Court (behind State 11.30am Social Inquiry Gender 6.00pm Don Dunstan Library) off Kintore Ave. Foundation, Centre for Labour Studies Seminar: Competing 8.00pm Classical Association of Research, Adelaide Research FRIDAY 27 OCTOBER Discourses of Domestic Violence by South Australia Meeting: Centre for Humanities and Social Cicero’s Michelle Jones. Seminar Room, 3rd Sciences, and the South Ideal Orator by Dr Malcolm Gillies. Floor, 10 Pulteney Street. Australian Council of Social 10.00am Social Inquiry - Labour Hughes 723, Hughes Building. 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium Studies Seminar: Service present: W(h)ither Welfare? The Training Lunch Hour Concert: Selected Agenda - For What? by Michael Welfare Reform in the US and TUESDAY 31 OCTOBER Chamber Music Ensembles for the Australia, by Professor Joan Acker. Keenan. Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 10 Elder Conservatorium. Admission $3 AEU, 163 Greenhill Road, Parkside. Pultney Street. at the door, inc GST. Elder Hall. 7.30pm Musicological Society of 11.30am Social Inquiry - Gender 9.00am Learn IT Symposium: See 2.00pm Social Inquiry Seminar: Australia, SA Chapter, Inc/ Elder Studies Seminar: Women in Politics: Bulletin Board, page 3 for full details. Mother, Daughter and Grand Conservatorium, School of Kenya and Australia, a comparative 3.15pm Anthropology Seminar: daughters. Life stories of three Performing Arts presents: The study by Edith Miguda. Seminar “...so terrible indeed that women and generations of an Indian family. 1866 - Collision of Politics and Music in Post Room, 3rd Floor, 10 Pulteney Street. nervous persons fly from the sight of 1950’s by Professor Veena Poonacha, World War 1 Germany: Selected 1.10pm Elder Conservatorium him...” The Myth of the Elephant Man (Women’s Studies, SNDT University, Aspects, by Derek Stiller. “Commitment Lunch Hour Concert: Works by by Damon Parker (Anthropology. India). Seminar Room, 3rd Floor, 10 or Abrogation? 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LearnIT 2000 Symposium North Western Adelaide Health Service The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Origins of Civil A teaching Hospital of Adelaide University and the University of Unrest lecture Tuesday 31 October 2000, 9.00am - 4.30pm, Bragg Lecture South Australia Theatre and Schulz Building This symposium provides an opportunity for staff and students of 12.30pm, Friday 27 October, the University to engage in discussion and learn about the future of Scholarship Opportunities at Lecture Theatre 3, Flinders Information Technologies and their role in enhancing learning and Medical Centre teaching at the University. TQEH in 2001 The lurking racial, ethnic or Program religious tensions that divide Postgraduate Research Scholarships many communities can be 8.30 Registration - Bragg Lecture Theatre Vacation Research Scholarships likened to lesions, the 9.00 Opening: Professor P Boumelha, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Applications close Tuesday 31 October 2000. pathological processes in the human body that result from Education Honours Research Scholarships injury or disease, according to Keynote Address: Professor John Bain (Griffith University) Applications close Friday 24 November 2000. Teaching and learning with IT prominent British academic For details contact the Research Secretariat, TQEH, tel (08) 8222 Sir Donald Acheson. 10.00 Concurrent sessions 7836 or (08) 8222 6870, email:
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